Essential for understanding the living history of modern-day witchcraft, this ground-breaking work opened the door for the modern revival of Wicca and neo-paganism as the first sympathetic book written from the point of view of a practicing witch. According to the author, 'The meaning of witchcraft is to be found, not in strange religious theories about God and Satan, but in the deepest levels of the human mind, the collective unconscious, and the earliest developments of human society.'--